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Art Review | 'Alias Man Ray': Mercurial Jester, Revealing and Concealing

“One no longer remembers where Mr. Ray was born. After having been a coal merchant, a millionaire several times over and the chairman of a chewing-gum trust, he decided he was open to the Dadaists’ invitation to show his latest paintings in Paris.” The ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Man Ray,  Jewish Museum,  Tristan Tzara,  Vanity Fair,  Irving Penn

Art Reviews | 'New Photography 2009,' 'Processed,' 'Surface Tension': Into the Darkroom, With Pulleys, Jam and Snakes

Back when Andreas Gursky was on the rise, the art world buzzed about the supposedly unfair advantages of digital photography. Photoshop and other computer manipulations were seen as performance-enhancing drugs, an impression fostered by Mr. Gursky’s ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art,  Cindy Sherman,  John Heartfield,  Walker Evans,  Los Angeles Times

Art Review | 'From Klimt to Klee': Art Dealer as Star in the German Expressionist Constellation

Serge Sabarsky, the art dealer and collector who founded the Neue Galerie with Ronald S. Lauder, never lived to see its 2001 opening. Most visitors to the museum know Mr. Sabarsky (1912-96) primarily through some of the Klimts and Schieles that rotate ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Neue Galerie,  Ronald S. Lauder,  Gustav Klimt,  Benny Goodman,  Egon Schiele

Art Review | 'Mrs. Delany and Her Circle': A Shower of Tiny Petals in a Marriage of Art and Botany

NEW HAVEN The 18th-century Englishwoman Mary Delany epitomized the phrase “late bloomer.” A widow twice over with no children, she thrived in middle and old age as a social butterfly, amateur artist and trusted authority on everything from court ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jonathan Swift,  Yale Center for British Art,  Museum of Natural History,  Alexander Pope,  Samuel Richardson

Art Review: Move Over, Humble Doily: Paper Does a Star Turn

Is paper passé? Your answer will most likely depend on whether you’re reading this sentence on newsprint or on a screen. But it’s safe to say that artists and designers aren’t ready to quit the stuff, at least by the measure of the latest show at the ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Arts and Design,  Brad Cloepfil,  Olafur Eliasson,  David Revere McFadden,  Kara Walker

Art Review | 'Serizawa': Interplay of Fabric, Dyes and ‘Don Quixote’

Imagine Don Quixote as a samurai. He sees waterwheels instead of windmills and Buddhist priests in place of Roman Catholics. He meets women dressed in kimonos and warriors in crescent-shaped helmets. Pages from Ehon Don Kihote, Serizawa Keisukes 1937 ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Japan Society

Art Review | 'Watteau, Music and Theater': Play on: Musical Mischief Makers Cavorting on Canvas

“Watteau, Music and Theater,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, imagines 18th-century French art as one big variety show. Opera, ballet, drama, comedy, fairs, garden parties and masked balls animate paintings, drawings and prints by Jean-Antoine ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Louis XIV (musician),  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art Review | 'Ree Morton': The Clues Left Behind in Works on Paper

The brevity of Ree Morton’s art career had little to do with the usual reasons for the disappearance of talented women. Morton had married and started a family before she became a full-time artist in the late 1960s, taking just a decade to get up to ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Smithson,  Eva Hesse,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  T. S. Eliot

Risks and Retreats

THE season’s big contemporary solo shows reflect both risk taking and a retreat to safety, sometimes within a single exhibition. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art,  Gavin Brown

Art Review | Vermeer: A Humble Domestic Crosses the Sea

New York has been celebrating its Dutch ancestry in grand style, with a weeklong festival of free bicycles, royal visits and ceremonial flotillas along the Hudson. But the city’s best 400th-anniversary present comes in a small, discreet package: ...

From KAREN ROSENBERG, The New York Times,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Thomas Campbell

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